Interminable
adjective
Something that seems endless.
The train journey seemed interminable.
Often appears as...
- interminable wait
- interminable delay
adjective
Something that seems endless.
The train journey seemed interminable.
Often appears as...
- interminable wait
- interminable delay
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Nuance
Often implies frustration or impatience with something taking too long.
Sitting through the interminable meeting, she sighed in exasperation.
Pro Tip 2/3Subjectivity
What feels 'interminable' to someone might be different for another; it's subjective.
His explanation was clear, but to those uninterested, it felt interminable.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Usage
Used in literature to set a scene or mood, indicating prolonged action or setting.
The interminable horizon stretched beyond sight, barren and desolate.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Nuance
Often implies frustration or impatience with something taking too long.
Sitting through the interminable meeting, she sighed in exasperation.
Pro Tip 2/3Subjectivity
What feels 'interminable' to someone might be different for another; it's subjective.
His explanation was clear, but to those uninterested, it felt interminable.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Usage
Used in literature to set a scene or mood, indicating prolonged action or setting.
The interminable horizon stretched beyond sight, barren and desolate.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Nuance
Often implies frustration or impatience with something taking too long.
Sitting through the interminable meeting, she sighed in exasperation.
Pro Tip 2/3Subjectivity
What feels 'interminable' to someone might be different for another; it's subjective.
His explanation was clear, but to those uninterested, it felt interminable.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Usage
Used in literature to set a scene or mood, indicating prolonged action or setting.
The interminable horizon stretched beyond sight, barren and desolate.
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The tale of the boy who...
These villagers guided him to the dock, where an elderly ferryman awaited. As he paddled through the black water, the ferryman rasped a third how can I escape my interminable task?
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Inside a Volcano PIPE...
it was the beginning of an ice age no one's quite sure why it happened but it seems that our entire world was plunged into an interminable winter
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The tale of the boy who...
These villagers guided him to the dock, where an elderly ferryman awaited. As he paddled through the black water, the ferryman rasped a third how can I escape my interminable task?
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Inside a Volcano PIPE...
it was the beginning of an ice age no one's quite sure why it happened but it seems that our entire world was plunged into an interminable winter
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Quote examples
Ruth Negga
Ethiopian Actress
I auditioned for 'Loving' two years before we started shooting, so in the hopes that I would be playing Mildred, I watched it again. Also it's one of the best documentaries I've seen. I found this couple interminably fascinating; even if I didn't get the part, I just wanted to know more about them and their story.
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Bill Foster
American Politician
The United States will always be a global leader, and we need to actively engage the international community to make sure all citizens of the world live freely and equally under their country's rule of law. We cannot, however, afford to fight other nations' wars interminably or stabilize their regions.
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H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind, and more or less indifference to the unfathomed abysses of star-strown space that yawn interminably about this terrestrial grain of dust.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.
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Cathy McMorris Rodgers
American Politician
We need to address the systemic structural issues within the VA - the misallocation of resources, the interminably long waiting lists, the bureaucratic inefficiencies - to ensure that our American heroes are properly protected the second they return home from war.
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Greg Graffin
American Musician
Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof.
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Leon Edel
American Critic
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
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Kevin Macdonald
Scottish Director
As a filmmaker, I'm interminably curious and nosy, but certain times you meet people and think, 'I don't want to push you too hard because I can see this is painful for you.
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Anatole Broyard
American Critic
The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
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Joy Reid
American Journalist
The Trump phenomenon might feel both interminable and unprecedented to Republican elites, but of course it isn't.
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Ruth Negga
Ethiopian Actress
I auditioned for 'Loving' two years before we started shooting, so in the hopes that I would be playing Mildred, I watched it again. Also it's one of the best documentaries I've seen. I found this couple interminably fascinating; even if I didn't get the part, I just wanted to know more about them and their story.
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Bill Foster
American Politician
The United States will always be a global leader, and we need to actively engage the international community to make sure all citizens of the world live freely and equally under their country's rule of law. We cannot, however, afford to fight other nations' wars interminably or stabilize their regions.
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H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind, and more or less indifference to the unfathomed abysses of star-strown space that yawn interminably about this terrestrial grain of dust.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.
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Cathy McMorris Rodgers
American Politician
We need to address the systemic structural issues within the VA - the misallocation of resources, the interminably long waiting lists, the bureaucratic inefficiencies - to ensure that our American heroes are properly protected the second they return home from war.
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Greg Graffin
American Musician
Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof.
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Leon Edel
American Critic
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
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Kevin Macdonald
Scottish Director
As a filmmaker, I'm interminably curious and nosy, but certain times you meet people and think, 'I don't want to push you too hard because I can see this is painful for you.
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Anatole Broyard
American Critic
The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
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Joy Reid
American Journalist
The Trump phenomenon might feel both interminable and unprecedented to Republican elites, but of course it isn't.
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